All About Me !

                                           




Hello, I'm China I am a year seven at Campion College. I enjoy doing lots of sports especially horse riding and snowboarding. My favourite subject at school is probably cooking and Science.
I'm going to be sharing my learning with you.




                                          

Term 4 has came to a end

Culture city

We have been learning about lots of cultures this term. Our theme this term has been culture city. We have been learning about the arts ( dance, drama, Music and Visual arts). We have also been making many paper dolls depending on which culture we picked.Here are some pictures of what I did.

Kapa Haka

We were lucky enough this term to participate in the Turanganui Kapa Haka Festival. Click on the link for information about it.

Craft Fair

We had the school gala .Moana learning hub sold cakes and baking. It was a very fun gala overall we 

managed to raise 15,000 dollars for the school.

Intermediate day

 Last Tuesday we got to go visit our intermediate.We had a fun day getting a tour around the school with our friends and getting to do some experimenting with science and doing some art.

 Road Patrols day Reward 

Last Thursday all the road partrolers got to go and spend the day at the Olympic pools. We all got a reward for doing our job. We got to have endless turns on the hydro slide and diving pools and even free pizza. Over all it has been an amazing term and year unfortunately it has came

Overall it has been an amazing term unfortunately it has came to an end. I've gotten to do so much cool opportunities at W.B.S ( Wainui Beach School) this term.

Turanganui Kapa haka festival 2019

                                                Turanganui Kapa Haka Festival 2019
  Turanganui Festival is a big event  that is held on the 20th of November , where schools and kapa haka groups share their kapa haka performances to their family and friends . We were lucky enough to take part in this event with the help of our coach Koka Terri. Many schools around Gisborne even kindergartens took part in this.


Butterflies fly around in my stomach , the sound of applause fluttered throughout the room after the Wai syndicate performed. We soon tip-toed around to the back of the stage. Silently watching the group before us.  "Here we have Wainui Beach School, give them around of applause ", said the man in an enthusiastic tone. As we walked onto the stage with discipline ,the cheerful applauses flew through out the room. I was in my line waiting then I hear the sound of the guitar strumming. The room is filled with dead silence.

As I walked forward to the sound of the guitar I opened my mouth and sang to the song Tu mai ra. It looked like there were millions of eyes watching me . " Whakapiri, " Matiria said in strong voice.  We then went into a small crowd rapping Haramai a paoa. Everybody was so nervous so we sounded like we were doing a really fast rap. We then spreaded out into our lines. I was in the front row so I was very, very nervous . As I did the actions my piu piu moved with us .As we sang Utaina we transitioned with the boys so they could do their haka. After the haka we walked forwards in between the boys singing Wainui e. We than all sang He Honore  together and walked off. As we walked of the applause was buzzing through out room.


I was so happy that it was finally over the butterflies had left my stomach. I was feeling proud of the way we performed. Over all I think we did amazing. All of the practices payed off.

GEGNZ Google Summit in Auckland

Last Friday eight lucky learners from our school, including me, got to go to a Google Summit.We got to share our presentation with other learners and also did many another workshops. I got to go to Makey Makey and Ozo-bot's.

Makey Makey was cool because you got to play the piano using playdough and alligator clips.

Ozo-bots was my favourite. We each got given a tiny robot. We used theses markers and drew codes. The robots would follow the codes and do things like spins and lots of cool stuff.

Te Poho Rawiri Marae

Last Thursday we went to stay at the Te Poho Rawiri marae .We learnt lots about it's history. Once we arrived the tangata whenua welcomed us on to the marae .They then told us about all the patterns that told stories that had been carved into the the marae. The marae is currently  eighty nine years old .It's turning ninety years old soon. Once you have been welcomed onto the marae it becomes your marae.
So you become apart of it.

After the powhiri we spent the day doing fun traditional maori activities .We got to weave some harakeke .We go to make some cool maori tuku tuku patterns .Me and my group had so much fun .
We learnt so many new things .After a yummy dinner we performed kapa haka to  parents that come  along to watch the performance. The jump jam team and I also did a dance .

Overall I had an awesome trip at the marae apart from the sleep and getting woken up at 3 am in the morning. It was an amazing place to visit .Especially because I hadn't been to the marae before either.
Here is some pictures of our stay at the marae.

Planting on The Land's Wetland

On Tuesday we went up to a farm in Whangara .We planted 350 native plants .We planted from the shade house .We planted harakeke (flax) ,cabbage trees .We were even lucky enough to go docking. If you don't know what docking is it's like clipping the lambs ears and putting rings the lambs tails .

GEGNZ Summit in Auckland

Last term I was selected to got to a Google summit in Auckland. We have to use an app and create a presentation of our history or our family's history . We also have to show people how to use the app.We showing other e our Geo tools .Also known as Geography tools. I am using Tour Creator to display my presentation. I have almost completed it.We are leaving to go to Auckland next thursday .